The Fool wrote:
>
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> From: David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Keith Henson wrote:
>
> Got me, what is the difference between disease organisms
> and parasites? If the individuals are sufficiently large, we
> call them parasites, and if they are small enough, we don't?
Fool, your quotes look all wrong to me. (I'm viewing this as
ASCII, with each layer of quotation another "> ".) Anyway,
I wrote the paragraph above.
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> My pet cat is clearly a parasite. I would be hard pressed to desribe him
> as a disease.
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He may be worthless, but he's not a parasite since you
could choose not to feed him. And that's my point, he's too big to
be a disease.
...
> I think the more common behavior is pushing back the
> predicted date of the apocalypse. But I guess one can only do
> this so many times.
>
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> Indeed:
> <<http://www.freeminds.org/history/list.htm>>
Amazing.
---David
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